2019 Tech Trends You Need to Know

Each year, industry analyst firm IDC makes predictions on what their research shows to be the leading trends and key drivers for the next five years. In the report IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2019 Predictions, indications predict a complete reinvention of enterprises’ digital innovation capabilities. There is expected to be an explosion of new applications, services and an overall digital transformation that has the potential to disrupt every industry.

IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens says, “As industries – and the global economy – rapidly realign and consolidate around digital innovation, CXOs must race to reinvent their organizations for the fast-paced multiplied innovation world. This means reinventing IT around a distributed cloud infrastructure, public cloud software stacks, agile and cloud-native app development and deployment, AI as the new user interface and new, pervasive approaches to security and trust at scale.”

By 2022, 60% of global GDP will be digitized with growth in every industry driven by digitally enhanced offerings, operations, and relationships.

By 2023, 75% of all IT spending will be on 3rd platform technologies with over 90% of all enterprises building digitally native environments.

By 2022, over 40% of organizations’ cloud deployments will include edge computing, and 25% of endpoint devices and systems will execute AI algorithms.

By 2022, 90% of all new apps will feature microservices architectures that improve the ability to design, debug, update and leverage third-party code; 35% of all production apps will be cloud native.

By 2024, a new class of professional developers producing code without custom scripting will expand the developer population by 30%, accelerating digital transformation.

From 2018 to 2023, 500 million new logical apps will be created which is equal to the number of apps built over the last 40 years.

By 2022, 25% of public cloud computing will be based on non-x86 processors; by 2022, organizations will spend more on vertical SaaS apps than horizontal apps.

By 2024, AI-enabled user interfaces and process automation will replace over one-third of today’s screen-based apps; by 2022, 30% of enterprises will use conversational speech tech for customer engagement.

By 2022, 40% of servers will encrypt data at rest and in motion, over 50% of security alerts will be handled by AI-powered automation and 150 million people will have blockchain-based digital identities.

By 2022, the top four cloud mega-platforms will host 80% of IaaS/PaaS development. But, by 2024, 90% of global 1000 organizations will mitigate lock-in through multi-cloud/hybrid technologies and tools.

Summary
The next three to five years will see a massive explosion of new applications, services and digital transformation that will affect every industry. If you would like additional information about IDC’s 2019 predictions or how Arrow can help you help your customers align their business to today’s market, contact your Arrow representative. If you aren’t an Arrow partner, contact us to learn about our value-added resources and programs to help you grow your business.